The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
The sole equality on earth is death.
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.